Combination shade and drapery holder



Oct. 14 1924. 1,511,462 7 A. L. GREGORY COMBINATION SHADE AND DRAPERY HOLDER Filed Aug. 1, 1922 Patented Oct. 14, 1924.

UNITED STATES ALBERT L. GREGORY, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION SHADE AND DRAPERY HOLDER.

Application filed August 1, 1922. Serial No. 578,875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that ALBERT L. GREGORY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Niagara Falls, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, has invented new and useful Improvements in Combination Shade and Drapery Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and relatively inexpensive bracket for supporting either a shade roller or a drapery pole or both and designed to selectively support the various conventional types of drapery poles; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bracket embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a side view of the twin bracket having a round bearing opening instead of the slotted opening adapted for spring rollers.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the bracket.

Figure 4 is a plan view of a pair of the brackets showing a shade roller and a drapery pole supported thereon.

Figure 5 is a plan view showing the use of brackets of the type indicated in supporting a drapery pole of a different type.

The bracket consists of a plate 10 having attaching ears 11 perforated as indicated at 12 for fastening means such as screws or nails adapted to be driven into the woodwork or casing of the window or door frame in connection with which the curtain or drapery is to be hung, said plate being provided with either the slot 13 shown in Figure 1 or the opening 14 shown in Figure 2 constituting bearings for a shade roller such as that indicated at 15 in Figure 4 and which may be of the ordinarily conventional spring or Hartshorn type.

At its outer end the bracket is provided with a reduced tongue 16 having a notch 17 in its upper side constituting a seat for a drapery pole of the type indicated at 18 in Figure 1, said tongue, however being longitudinally split or slotted as indicated at 19 to form leaves 20 which are adapted to yield transversely for efiective engagement with sockets 21 on the extremities of an extensible drapery pole 22 such as that shown in F igure 5.

Thus the extension or tongue 16 of the bracket is adapted to form the attaching means for either of the ordinary conventional forms of drapery poles, one of which is adapted to rest in suitable seats and is held in place by gravity, and the other of which has a telescoping engagement by means of terminal sockets with the bracket, and which is adjustable in length to suit the width of the window or door opening.

Moreover the tongue formed by the 6X1Z6I1- sion of the bracket constitutes an unobjectionable ornament or finishing for the outer end of the bracket so that when a drapery pole is not required its presence as a feature of the bracket does not indicate or suggest the omission of the drapery pole, and therefore is not open to the objection of those combination shade and drapery supporting brackets which are so conspicuously designed for supporting both articles that the omission of one of them is immediately obvious. In other words the hereindescribed bracket is especially designed to support either a shade roller or a drapery pole of different types, to suit the particular drapery which is to be suspended, or both a shade roller and a drapery pole at the option of the user and without in either use having the appearance of being incomplete.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is:

A curtain pole support consisting of a plate having angularly disposed portions, one portion being adapted for attachment to a window frame and the other of the said portions having means for supporting a shade roller, the plate having a tongue portion disposed in the plane of the shade roller supporting portion and alined approximately with the center thereof, said tongue having a kerf leading in from the outer end thereof and dividing the tongue into spaced sections, the side walls of the kerf being parallel with the side surfaces of the tongue and a notch provided in the upper edge of the tongue and disposed transversely of the kerf at a point between the ends thereof.

In testimony whereof he affixes his signature.

ALBERT L. GREGORY. 

